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#404 Stop Drinking Water: Why Every Elite Athlete is Doing Hydration Wrong | Nathan Payton

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 136 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Your nutrition protocol is failing not because of your effort, but because you are ignoring the biological godfather that dictates every gram of muscle gained and every ounce of fat burned.

Before Nathan Payton was the architect behind eight World's Strongest Man titles, he was a Duke-trained specialist navigating the clinical reality of integrative medicine to bridge the gap between science and the most extreme physical demands on the planet. By mastering the delicate art of insulin modulation, he transformed a career of observation into a proprietary methodology that has kept his athletes in the World's Strongest Man finals for seventeen consecutive years.

INSIDE THE EPISODE:

  • The Insulin Godfather: Why insulin is the primary lever that determines the efficacy of every supplement, training session, and recovery protocol.

  • Controlling the Chaos: How Nathan manages the physiological "stuck adrenaline" response in elite athletes using unconventional nutritional triggers.

  • The Hydration Paradox: Why drinking too much water during a competition can actually dilute your performance and increase injury risk.

  • NFL Game Planning: The massive nutritional void in professional football and how specific metabolic timing could prevent rampant Achilles and bicep tears.

MEET THE GUEST:

Nathan Payton is a Duke University graduate in Integrative Medicine and the owner of Metroflex Gym in Houston, TX. Renowned as the strategist behind the dominance of champions like Brian Shaw and Tom Stoltman, he has spent over 20 years refining a proprietary insulin-modulation framework. His work spans the highest levels of professional sport and clinical medicine, making him the industry's premier authority on performance nutrition and metabolic health.

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0:30.6

You got about 36 seconds before it is disgusting. It turns into an expanded, soggy mess.

0:35.5

I want the expansion. We're going to go the magnet approach here,

0:38.3

where I'm going to try to stay ahead of the curve.

0:40.3

It's all about topping off.

0:43.3

It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.

0:56.0

Welcome to Table Talk.

0:58.0

Nathan Payton, welcome back.

1:00.0

Great to be back.

1:01.0

You just had four athletes in the Arnold Stroman?

1:05.0

Yes.

1:06.0

Is that right?

1:07.0

How did that go?

1:08.0

Went very, very, very well.

1:09.0

Yeah, anytime the guys show up and hit PRs and everything, you know, they've done all they

1:14.6

can do at that point.

1:15.6

And then it becomes, you see how the cards fall.

1:17.6

So yeah, my guys finished two, three, four, and seven.

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